TAILOR-MADE LANGUAGE

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

March, 2019 (#1-4)

 

Answer each clue using words that relate to tailoring.

 

1. Don't say anything

2. Tease those people

3. Force the guy to choose

4. Vacillate in making up one's mind

5. Reconcile after an argument 

6. Be qualified for a task

7. Good advice for a woodworker

8. Bring to a favorable conclusion

9. Very much alike, as personalities

10. Denoting a very precarious, dangerous situation

Answers:

 

1. Button (or Zip) your lip

2. Needle them

3. Pin him down 

4. Hem and haw

5. Patch things up / Mend fences

6. Measure up 

7. Measure twice, cut once 

8. Sew it up

9. Cut from the same cloth

10. Hanging by a thread

COMING DOWN THE ILE III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in ILE.

1. Childishly foolish

2. Having a fever

3. Irritate, vex

4. Manly, robust

5. Trick, stratagem

6. Disgustingly evil

7. Likely to change quickly - for the worst 

8. New York subway one-at-a-time entrance

9. Young person, especially as under legal age

10. Physically ready for marriage, said of a young woman

11. Outline or something, especially a person's face from the side

 

Answers:

 

1. Puerile

2. Febrile

3. Rile

4. Virile

5. Wile

6. Vile

7. Volatile

8. Turnstile

9. Juvenile

10. Nubile

11. Profile

COMING DOWN THE ILE II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

 

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in ILE.

 

1. Tail adapted for grasping

2. Antagonistic

3. Bearing offspring freely, prolific

4. Speak abusively of

5. Cunning, treachery

6. Easily broken

7. Like false tears

8. Former

9. With no possibility of success, as an effort

10. Skilled/talented in many areas

Answers:

 

1. Prehensile

2. Hostile

3. Fertile

4. Revile

5. Guile

6. Fragile

7. Crocodile

8. Erstwhile

9. Futile

10. Versatile

THE IZE OR ISE HAVE IT III 

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Specialized Vocabulary

The answer to each clue below will be a word ending in either IZE or ISE.

1. Guess, infer

2. Turn over, as a boat 

3. Renounce one's faith

4. Make mutual concessions

5. Clean to make free of bacteria

6. Divide into opposite extremes, as in politics

7. Underwrite financially, as by the government

8. A project, undertaking, company, or business venture

9. Create and perform spontaneously, without preparation

10. To serve as a perfect example of a particular quality or type

11. Regard with awe, make larger than life - as celebrities or athletes

12. Use humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize faults

13. Right to vote or a business that provides the product or service of a parent company

14. Make something coherent by combining ideas, or produce something natural by artificial means 

Answers:

 

1. Surmise

2. Capsize

3. Apostatize

4. Compromise 

5. Sterilize

6. Polarize

7. Subsidize

8. Enterprise

9. Improvise

10. Epitomize

11. Lionize

12. Satirize

13. Franchise

14. Synthesize

COMING DOWN THE ILE I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in ILE:

1. Nimble 

2. Obsequious

3. Gracefully slender

4. Submissive, tractable

5. Cloth or woven fabric

6. Taint, pollute, desecrate

7. Like a weak, old woman

8. Having to do with the sense of touch 

9. Mislead, delude by charm or cunning

10. Not Jewish, to a person who is Jewish

11. Re-establish friendship, resolve a dispute

12. Appearing easy and comprehensive, but ignoring the true complexity of an issue

Answers:

 

1. Agile

2. Servile

3. Gracile

4. Docile

5. Textile

6. Defile

7. Anile

8. Tactile

9. Beguile

10. Gentile

11. Reconcile

12. Facile

THE WAY IT IS III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary 

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in IS.

1. Germany and its allies in World War II

2. The King

3. Raised platform

4. Secretary, formerly

5. Sponsorship or protection 

6. Jewish circumcision ceremony

7. Pride or arrogance leading to a fall

8. Inability to move all or part of the body

9. Dormant metamorphic state of a caterpillar, transitional state

Answers:

 

1. Axis

2. Elvis

3. Dais

4. Amanuensis

5. Aegis

6. Bris

7. Hubris

8. Paralysis

9. Chrysalis

SOUND OF LONG E II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary 

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in the sound of long E.

 

1. Binge

2. Military raid 

3. Height, as of a career

4. Adolescent skin woe

5. Military "wake up" call

6. Nest of a predatory bird

7. Frame of an automobile

8. Single-celled aquatic plant

9. Self-righteous person, hypocrite

10. Strange and frightening, spooky

11. Antelope and a soft, pliable cloth

12. A unit of heat or energy produced by food

13. Collection of exotic animals or of other odd things

14. Biblical garden, or any period of intense suffering

15. Mixture of dried petals and spices used to perfume a drawer or room

 

Answers:

 

1. SPREE

2. SORTIE

3. ACME

4. ACNE

5. REVEILLE

6. AERIE

7. CHASSIS

8. ALGAE

9. PHARISEE

10. EERIE

11. CHAMOIS

12. CALORIE

13. MENAGERIE

14. GETHSEMANE

15. POTPOURRI 

 

THIS IS IT II

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

SpecializedVocabulary 

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in IT.

1. Guilty person

2. Old and infirm

3. Pipe, tube, or channel

4. Silent, but understood

5. Forbidden, as an affair

6. A sworn, legal statement 

7. Release from slavery, set free

8. Hinder, restrain, or prevent an action

9. The amount by which a sum of money is too small

10. Involved with others in wrongdoing or illegal activity

Answers:

 

1. CULPRIT

2. DECREPIT

3. CONDUIT

4. TACIT

5. ILLICIT

6. AFFIDAVIT

7. MANUMIT

8. INHIBIT or LIMIT

9. DEFICIT

10. COMPLICIT

THE IZE OR ISE HAVE IT II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in IZE  or ISE.

1. Remove objectionable parts of a book

2. Do business with or treat condescendingly

3. To inform or make aware, as of a situation

4. Get people together and move them to action 

5. Captivate an audience, as in a powerful speech

6. Make religiously binding, as a wedding ceremony

7. Do things to gain power, wealth, etc. only for yourself

8. Preach the gospel (or other cause) in an effort to get converts

9. Give a speech remembering and praising the deceased at a funeral

10. Associate with people (often the opposite sex) - especially when one is not supposed to - as in the military

Answers:

 

1. Bowdlerize

2. Patronize

3. Apprise 

4. Galvanize

5. Mesmerize

6. Solemnize

7. Aggrandize

8. Evangelize or Proselytize

9. Eulogize or Panagyrize

10. Fraternize

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS AND FINANCE III

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

The answers to the clues below will relate to business and/or finance.

 

1. Excessive or unlawful rates of interest

2. To press or harass a debtor for payment

3. Overdue or unpaid taxes are said to be this

4. One who takes the risks and starts his own business

5. Stealing money or securities from funds entrusted to you

6. Government protection of exclusive rights to an invention

7. A check issued by a bank and drawn on its own funds

8. Financial aid given by the government to a commercial enterprise, like farming

9. Payment for artistic works (songs, plays, etc.) given to the artist each time they are used 

10. Retailers and others taking advantage of spikes in demand by charging exorbitant prices for necessities, often after a natural disaster or other state of emergency.

 

Answers:

 

1. Usury

2. Dun

3. Delinquent

4. Entreprenure

5. Embezzlement

6. Patent

7. Cahier's check

8. Subsidy

9. Royalties

10. Price gouging 

THE WAY IT IS II

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulay

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in IS.

1. A point of view directly contrary or opposite to another

2. Combining separate elements into a coherent whole

3. Medical determination of a patient's condition

4. Medical prediction of the future course of the condition

5. The origin or beginning of something

6. Fertile watering spot in the desert

7. A purging of one's emotions.

8. Summary

9. Emergency

10. Stress, importance

11. Automobile frame

12. Process by which manufacture their own food (glucose)

Answers:

 

1. Antithesis

2. Synthesis

3. Diagnosis

4. Prognosis

5. Genesis

6. Oasis

7. Catharsis

8. Synopsis

9. Crisis

10. Emphasis

11. Chassis

12. Photosynthesis

 

OLD AGE AND DEATH II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Specialized Vocabulary

The answers to the clues below will be words associated with old age and death.

1. Long life

2. Euphemism for death

3. Synonym for deadly or fatal

4. Old word for burial chamber 

5. Euphemism for an undertaker

6. Obsolete due to old age or new technologies

7. A large cemetery belonging to an ancient city

8. A wise old man, based on a king in Greek mythology

9. Branch of medicine that deals with the conditions of old age

10. A very old man, based on the Old Testament man who lived 969 years 

11. The public official charged with the responsibility to investigate the cause of any unnatural death

12. To express sympathy and respect to the family of someone who has just died is to give your _____.

 

Answers:

 

1. Longevity

2. Demise

3. Lethal

4. Sepulchre

5. Mortician

6. Superannuated

7. Necropolis

8. Nestor

9. Gerontology

10. Methusalah

11. Coroner

12. Condolences 

CRIME, PUNISHMENT, LAW III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

 

The answer to each clue will be a word associated with crime, punishment, or law.

 

1. Wrongdoing by a public official

2. To formally charge with a crime

3. An oath or sworn statement

4. A general pardon

5. Accused person sent back to custody

6. A court calendar of the cases to be tried

7. Legal term used to refer to a dead person

8. Previous legal ruling in a comparable case 

9. Period in which legal action may be brought

10. Formally call into court to answer for a crime

11. The withholding of punishment in return for testimony

12. A legal or judiciary hearing concerning a person's death  

13. Circumstances which may be considered as reducing the severity of a crime

14. Process by which a wanted criminal is returned from one state/country to another

15. An accused person who is released without bail, but with the understanding that he will appear when required to answer the charge against him is said to be released on his own _______.

Answers:

 

1. Malfeasance

2. Indict

3. Affidavit

4. Amnesty

5. Remanded

6. Docket

7. Decedent

8. Precedent

9. Statute of limitations

10. Arraign

11. Impunity

12 .Inquest

13. Mitigating or extenuating

14. Extradition 

15. Recognizance

 

SOUND OF A  II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

Each clue below can be answered with a word that ends in the long sound of "A", but not with the letter "A". Many of the answer words end with an accented "e" - which I cannot show on my computer.

 

1. Swiss cottage

2. Hawaiian garland

3. Unimpressed, indifferent

4. Flowers carried by a bride

5. Trite, hackneyed expression

6. Evening party or get-together

7. Bounce off a surface, as a bullet 

8. Innocence, lacking in experience

9. Slightly indecent and liable to shock  

10. Afternoon performance of a play or show

11. Speak or write about something with great hostility

12. Investigation and public disclosure of something illegal, immoral, or otherwise embarrassing

 

Answers:

 

1. Chalet

2. Lei

3. Blase

4. Bouquet

5. Cliche

6. Soiree

7. Ricochet

8. Naivete

9. Risque

10. Matinee

11. Inveigh

12. Expose 

CLOTHING III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Specialized Vocabulary

The answer to each clue below will be word related to clothing.

1. British for raincoat

2. Broad sash worn as a waistband

3. Bride's clothing, linen, etc.

4. Cloak worn by ancient Romans

5. Overshoes worn in snowy or wet weather

6. Stylishly and elegantly dressed

7. Shoemaker

8. Worn or outgrown garment passed on to another

9. Hawaiian loose, flowing gown for women

10. Socks and stockings of all types

11. Evening gowns and tuxedos

12. Chef's hat

13. Nun's clothing

14. Garment for the dead

15. General term for clothing

16. Formal name for a stripteaser

17. Strips of linen used to wrap a newborn baby

18. Long-sleeved, knitted sweater fastening down the front

19. The close-fitting upper part of a dress - often ornamented

20. Jeweled, crown-like band worn on the front of a woman's hair

Answers:

 

1. Mackintosh

2. Cummerbund

3. Trousseau 

4. Toga

5. Galoshes

6. Chic

7. Cobbler

8. Hand-me-down

9. Muumuu

10. Hosiery

11. Formal wear

12. Toque*

13. Habit

14. Shroud

15. Raiment

16. Ecdysiast

17. Swaddling clothes

18. Cardigan

19. Bodice 

20. Tiara

* A toque is also a woman's beanie-like hat.

 

SOUND OF LONG E  I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

The answer to each clue below will be a word ending with the sound of long E:

 

1. Dream-like state

2. Boredom

3. Perfect example

4. Excessive exaggeration

5. Small, often exclusionary group

6. Fellowship

7. Literary device and a punctuation mark

8. Parentage, as of an animal

9. Rubble

10. Directions for preparing food

Answers:

 

1. REVERIE

2. ENNUI

3. EPITOME

4. HYPERBOLE

5. COTERIE

6. CAMARADERIE

7. APOSTROPHE

8. PEDIGREE

9. DEBRIS

10. RECIPE

BUSINESS AND FINANCE II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

 

The answers to the clues below will relate to business/finance.

 

1. Financial backer of a play 

2. Current price of a stock or security

3. Progressive decrease in value over time 

4. Take money from a person's salary to settle a debt

5. Word to describe Stock Market when prices are rising

6. Word to describe Stock Market when prices are falling

7. Profit on the sales of stocks or real estate on which taxes must be paid

8. Reduce a debt of loan gradually by installment payments - as in a mortgage

9. Group that seeks monopolistic control of a market - especially of illegal drugs

10. The total market value of all goods and services produced by a nation within a specific period

 

Answers:

 

1. Angel

2. Quote

3. Depreciation 

4. Garnish

5. Bull market

6. Bear market

7. Capital gains

8. Amortize

9. Cartel

10. Gross National Product (GNP) 

 

THIS IS IT I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary 

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in IT.

1. Expression of praise or approval

2. A risky move to gain an advantage

3. Clearly expressed, unequivocal

4. Draw forth, bring out

5. Excess, as in eating

6. Relinquish, be deprived of (as a game)

7. Implied rather than stated

8. Fake, phony - as money

9. Official examination of finances

10. Free from a criminal charge by a "not guilty" verdict

Answers:

 

1. PLAUDIT

2. GAMBIT

3. EXPICIT

4. ELICIT

5. SURFEIT

6. FORFEIT

7. IMPICIT

8. COUNTERFEIT

9. AUDIT

10. ACQUIT

THE IZE OR ISE HAVE IT  I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

 

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in IZE or ISE. 

 

1 Use

2. Death

3. Endanger

4. Socially exclude

5. Examine closely

6. Disgrace or dishonor

7. Cast out an evil spirit

8. Discharge a debt gradually (as a mortgage)

9. Copy and take credit for the work of others

10. Justify one's behavior with plausible, but dishonest, excuses

Answers:

 

1. UTILIZE

2. DEMISE

3. JEOPARDIZE

4. OSTRACIZE

5. SCRUTINIZE

6. STIGMATIZE

7. EXORCIZE

8. AMORTIZE

9. PLAGIARIZE

10. RATIONALIZE

 

 

 

THE WAY IT IS  I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary 

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in IS.

1. Artificial limb

2. Bad breath

3. Cemetery

4. Close examination

5. Tadpole to frog process

6. Scholarly paper (as for a degree)

7. Tokyo, London, New York, or LA

8. Person or thing that is always tripping  you up

9. Critical interpretation of a literary or Scriptural passage

10.. Conjecture, supposition -  used as a starting point for further investigation

Answers:

 

1. Prosthesis

2. Halitosis

3. Necropolis

4. Analysis

5. Metamorphosis

6. Thesis

7. Metropolis

8. Nemesis

9. Exegesis

10. Hypothesis